For this talk we laser-focused in on the firmware update topic. I received feedback, such as "Good message this morning, glad you guys are interested/passionate about OCP from a FW ecosystem sanity perspective."

Our advocacy in the 2016 talk was that even if the update is delivered out-of-band, say via a service processor, the data envelope should be the same. Imagine an independent hardware vendor (IHV) curating an update blob. Why tax the IHV to create separate blobs for different delivery paths?